similar to: Event handling in R

Hi R-Devel, I've been working on an oscilloscope project using an Arduino microcontroller board. I found that it's quite easy to get realtime updates, e.g. 30+ frames per second, if I read data from the board in a little Rcpp library. I have to use dev.hold() and dev.flush() to keep the plot from flickering, which restricts me to the "cairo" X11 device. I'd like to be able

doKeybd() gets called in CHelpKeyIn() and NHelpKeyIn() in library/grDevices/src/devWindows.c, where the call is encapsulated in an 'if (dd->gettingEvent)' block. So the only times this code ever calls doKeybd() is when gettingEvent is in fact set. Further, it's called in two locations in X11_eventHelper(), in modules/X11/devX11.c, where the state of gettingEvent seems to be moot

Hey all. As in general it's a bad idea to allow an event handler to generate an event, and as comments in the code seem to suggest this isn't the intention either, I was wondering about recursion in getGraphicsEvent(). In main/gevents.c, both doMouseEvent() and doKeybd() have the following line; dd->gettingEvent = FALSE; /* avoid recursive calls */ And they reset it to TRUE

Hi Frederik, >>>>> <frederik at ofb.net> >>>>> on Tue, 7 Jun 2016 15:20:05 -0700 writes: > ... I just realized that setGraphicsEventHandlers or > getGraphicsEvent could have an 'onIdle' callback, to be > called somewhere in the polling loop of gevents.c:163 - I > think this would solve my problem #2 in a minimally

Hey all. Setting a time limit with setTimeLimit(), and then using getGraphicsEvent(), will cause graphics event handling for the current device to break on timeout, until the device is destroyed and recreated. The problem lies in do_getGraphicsEvent() checking the value of dd->gettingEvent and concluding it's being called recursively (ironically this same test fails to detect actual

Dear R-Devel list members I'm facing as problem already known and linked to the use of getGraphicsEvent(prompt = "Waiting for input", ???????????????? onMouseDown = NULL, onMouseMove = NULL, ???????????????? onMouseUp = NULL, onKeybd = NULL, ???????????????? onIdle = NULL, ???????????????? consolePrompt = prompt) setGraphicsEventHandlers(which = dev.cur(), ...)

What are the ramifications of setting up user signal handling to allow the use of e.g. alarm(2) to send a SIGALRM to the R process at some number of seconds in the future to e.g. interrupt a routine that is taking too long to complete. I can't find any R language support for this (e.g. a timeout argument to tryCatch() would be ideal), so am wondering what kinds of problems are to be expected

Hi Is the correct patch to remove the setting of the gettingEvent flag or would it be better to flip the TRUE/FALSE setting (set to TRUE before handling then reset to FALSE after handling) ? Also, for this patch and for the other two you sent, one difficulty will be with testing the patches. I have no testing code for this, so would need at least a test or two from you (ideally someone

On Mon, 31 Oct 2016, Henrik Bengtsson wrote: > Thank you for looking into this Luke. > > On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 9:26 AM, <luke-tierney at uiowa.edu> wrote: >> On unix, unless event polling is enabled Sys.sleep just waits in a >> select() call (with a SIGINT handler in place) so the elapsed time >> isn't checked until after the select call is complete.

... I just realized that setGraphicsEventHandlers or getGraphicsEvent could have an 'onIdle' callback, to be called somewhere in the polling loop of gevents.c:163 - I think this would solve my problem #2 in a minimally disruptive way. On Mon, Jun 06, 2016 at 06:38:45PM -0700, frederik at ofb.net wrote: > Hi R-Devel, > > I've been working on an oscilloscope project using an

Hi, Is there currently any way to guarantee that on.exit does not fail to execute the recorded expression because of a user interrupt arriving during function exit? Consider: f <- function() { suspendInterrupts({ on.exit(suspendInterrupts(cntr_on.exit <<- cntr_on.exit + 1L)) cntr_f <<- cntr_f + 1L }) TRUE } It is possible to interrupt this function such that cntr_f

setTimeLimit(elapsed=1) causes a timeout error whenever a call takes more than one second. For instance, this is how it works on Windows (R 3.3.1): > setTimeLimit(elapsed=1) > Sys.sleep(10); message("done") Error in Sys.sleep(10) : reached elapsed time limit Also, the error propagates immediately and causes an interrupt after ~1 second; > system.time({ Sys.sleep(10);

On unix, unless event polling is enabled Sys.sleep just waits in a select() call (with a SIGINT handler in place) so the elapsed time isn't checked until after the select call is complete. Rstudio uses event polling, and in particular sets R_wait_usec to 10000, which means event and interrupt checks happen during a Sys.seep call. The R GUI on macOS doesn't seem to do this (but my lldb

Hi the list, I need to use getGraphicsEvent to plot two graph. On the following toy example: - the function b is ploting two graph depending on a parameter - the function a is calling b according to some user answers. It is suppose to call b until the user press Return, but it does not. b <- function(x){ dev.off(2);dev.off(3) windows();windows(3,3,xpos=0) dev.set(2);plot(1:x)

I would like to use setTimeLimit to abort operations that are stuck waiting (idle) after n seconds. Below a toy example in which Sys.sleep is a placeholder call that is idle: testlimit <- function(){ setTimeLimit(elapsed=3, transient=TRUE); Sys.sleep(10); } system.time(testlimit()); However this is giving inconsistent results. On windows and in r-studio server (linux) the call is

Thank you for the feedback and confirmations. Interesting to see that it's also reproducible on macOS expect for Spencer; that might indicate a difference in builds. BTW, my original post suggested that timeout error was for sure detected while running Sys.sleep(10). However, it could of course also be that it is only detected after it finishes. For troubleshooting, the

Great. Thanks! Paul On 14/11/16 13:41, frederik at ofb.net wrote: > Hi Paul, > > Thank you, for some reason I didn't seem to get an email notification > for your bugzilla comment! > > I will try to send you something shortly. > > Frederick > > On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 08:55:20AM +1300, Paul Murrell wrote: >> Hi >> >> The current status is that

Thanks Frederick. Mark, if you have any examples to share, they would also be gratefully received. Paul On 14/11/16 14:53, frederik at ofb.net wrote: > Hi Paul, > > OK I tried not to make the examples too fancy. > > Please let me know what you think. They should probably be amended to > support the Windows platform, but I think that task would be much > easier for someone

Hi all, I'm writing an interactive plotting function for viewing fMRI datasets. Currently, I get keypresses using grDevices::getGraphicsEvent(). Unfortunately getGraphicsEvent() only supports the X11(type="Xlib") graphics device on Unix systems. The Xlib device doesn't support buffering (i.e. dev.hold() and dev.flush()), so redrawing the plots causes lots of flickering. Is

Hi Taking a look at those patches is now on my todo list, so I may be in touch with both of you at some point to request some testing. Paul On 26/07/16 07:17, frederik at ofb.net wrote: > Dear Daniel Greenidge, > > To enable getGraphicsEvent on Cairo, you have two patches to choose > from: > > https://bugs.r-project.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14364 >